Re: New to Informix

Having dealt with Business Basic (Data General's) in a previous life and having come to the Informix World in the early 90's myself, I think that you will be very happy with the technology switch - just give it some time. Informix training classes and materials are very good. Since you and your team members do not have much rel. db experience, I would suggest the following classes (in this order): Relational Database Design (class 611) Structured Query Language (class 613) Developing Applications Using Informix 4GL (class 007) Then, as you get more into development and if you will really do database and/or system administration, I would suggest: Managing and Optimizing Informix Dynamic Server (class 848) Informix Dynamic Server System Admin. (class 846 - assumes UNIX) You can take IDS.2000 classes instead of 7.3 - close enough... Hal Maner M Systems International, Inc. www.msystemsintl.com John Welch <jrw3319@gis.net> wrote in message news:38f3c8d4.87919971@news.gis.net... > Hello all, > My company recently purchased an Enterprise software package which > has IDS 7.x (sorry I don't know the exact version) as the backend > database. The current version of the software that we will be > installing is written in Informix 4GL. We are moving from a highly > customized software package that was written in ProvideX Business > Basic and does not contain a backend RDBMS. Myself and other memebers > of the IS department have very little experience with databases in > general, and no experience with Informix at all. However, we are > going to be a big part of a team that implements this new software > package, and will eventually administer the database and may even do > some development work. > I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction as > far as reference material on Informix (i.e. books, magazines, web > sites, etc.). Also, I have been looking into the training offered by > Informix. Can anybody share any experiences with these classes? > Should I look to any outside sources for training? I notice that many > of the classes mention IDS.2000. Would these classes still be > benefitial to me even though I am running version 7.x? > Any information that anybody could pass along would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you in advance. > > John Welch > Systems Analyst > Brockway-Smith Co.